Новости за 24.10.2017

Ksenia Sobchak, a Russian TV personality planning to run against Vladimir Putin in next year’s presidential election, attacked his policies on October 24 but said she would not personally insult him in the campaign because he was a family friend. Read more here.   

Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution extending the mandate of the only official mission investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) was set up in 2015 to identify perpetrators of chemical attacks. Read more here. 

A prominent British critic of Vladimir Putin is being subjected to a “massive abuse of power” by Russia and should be offered protection by the UK Government, the Home Secretary has been told. A senior Conservative MP urged Amber Rudd to challenge the Kremlin’s repeated attempts to order the arrest of Bill Browder, a campaigner […]

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine intends to implement the certification exam in the Ukrainian language for foreigners; the issue is to be settled until 2018, vice prime minister Vyacheslav Kyrylenko said as quoted by his press service on October 24. The government explained that the need for implementation of the internationally recognized exam in Ukrainian […]

A ransomware attack is spreading across Russia and Ukraine, crippling multiple news agencies and transportation systems. The ransomware, dubbed “Bad Rabbit” by its creators, appears to function like a conventional ransomware, encrypting victims’ computers and demanding a bitcoin ransom — in this case, .05 BTC, or about $282 — for an unproven promise to restore […]

Ukrainian authorities have uncovered the misuse of $17.6 million during the preparations for and organization of the 2017 Eurovision song contest, held this May in the country’s capital of Kyiv, according to Billboard. Read more here. 

112.international together with 112.ua presented the new video from the series of videos about the beauty of the Ukrainian cities. The video shows one of the most attractive for the tourists’ city of Ukraine. It is called ‘little Lviv’ for their architectural likeness and West Ukrainian sense of place. Also, it has a name of […]

Top Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are refusing to endorse a Republican move to find out who paid the firm that commissioned a dossier alleging ties between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, a court document made public on October 23 showed. Read more here. 

The banner saying ‘Free Sentsov’ was hung at the Trump Tower on October 24. Mariya Alyokhina from Pussy Riot band posted this on Facebook, as she and fellow activists from Russia, Great Britain, and the U.S. put it in the downtown New York. The local police shut off Trump Tower for half an hour. Read […]

Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin will be on a working visit to Germany on October 25. Klimkin’s agenda in the German capital includes meetings with members of the German parties and journalists, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported on October 25. He will also meet with Jan Hecker, […]

The chief of Ukraine’s cyber police said Ukraine was attacked on October 24 by malware called BadRabbit, adding that the country was barely affected. Earlier the airport in the southern city of Odessa said it had tightened security measures after being hit by a cyber attack, while the metro system in the capital Kyiv reported a […]

Facebook is facing more questions over Russian-linked ads — this time in Britain. British lawmakers have asked the company to provide information on any ads purchased by Russian-linked Facebook accounts around June’s general election and last year’s Brexit referendum. Damian Collins, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, has requested details including […]

Lviv region’s court of appeals has supported a decision taken by the first instance court to recognize Mikheil Saakashvili, ex-President of Georgia, leader of the New Forces Movement party, guilty of illegal crossing of the Ukrainian border. The court issued a relevant ruling at a meeting on October 24, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported. The […]

Russia cast a veto at the United Nations Security Council on October 24 preventing the renewal of the mandate for a mission that investigates the use of chemical weapons in Syria.  The investigation by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) – known as the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) […]

Cyber attacks using malware called “BadRabbit” hit Ukraine and Russia on October 24, causing flight delays at Ukraine’s Odessa airport and affecting several media outlets in Russia, including the Interfax news agency. The attack appears to be one of the biggest since the NotPetya cyber attack in June that first hit Ukraine and spread around […]

Russia-backed separatists continued to violate the ceasefire in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, as of 6:00 p.m. on October 24, with two Ukrainian soldiers reported as killed in action in the Mariupol sector and another two were killed while stepping on an unknown explosive device, according to the press center of the Ukrainian Army. Read more here. 

Ukraine’s Odesa airport and the subway system in the capital, Kyiv, were hit by cyberattacks on October 24, with the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) saying a new wave of hacks was targeting the country, and calling on transportation networks to be on high alert. Ukraine was the main victim of a major cyberattack earlier […]

In late November – early December, the Verkhovna Rada plans to hold a day of voting for infrastructure bills. Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan informed this on his Facebook page. Read more here. 

Former Georgian President and leader of the Movement of New Forces Mikheil Saakashvili has said that he did not receive any documents that would challenge his right to stay in Ukraine. “Prosecutor General [Yuriy] Lutsenko… said that the Migration Service denied me the right to stay in the country and that I can be deported! […]

On October 24, Odesa International Airport, Kyiv Metro and the Ministry of Infrastructure were attacked by hackers. Read more here. 

Ukraine’s Odesa airport said on Oct. 24 it had tightened security measures after being hit by a cyber attack, while the metro system in Kyiv also reported a hack on its payment system. Read more here.

Ukraine’s state-run Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) said it had detected a new wave of cyber attacks on Ukraine on Oct. 24, asking transport networks to be on particular alert. Read more here.

Ukraine’s new ambassador to the alliance has started an important stage in his diplomatic career in the period of bringing the state’s policy to the Euro-Atlantic course, the ultimate goal of which is gaining membership of NATO. In an interview with an Ukrinform correspondent in Brussels, Ambassador Vadym Prystaiko spoke about ambitious plans for political and […]

A Ukrainian bodybuilder is under investigation for animal cruelty after tattooing her cat to make it look ‘as glamorous’ as her. Read more here.

Russian business newswire Interfax suffered a hacker attack that made part of its services unavailable to subscribers, according to a statement Tuesday. Read more here.